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NIGHT OUT WITH RICHARD HELL
10 years ago
Richard Hell is about half way through his Symphony Space curation series NIGHT OUT WITH RICHARD HELL. I’ve attended all of them, and it’s really been fantastic thus far. LYDIA LOVELESS He kicked off the series with Lydia Loveless, a 23 yr old alternative country singer from Columbus, Ohio. - dubbed “alternative” due to the way she fuses honky tonk and classic country with punk rock. Richard[...]

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1970s LOGOS
10 years ago
My graphic design professor/mentor from Pratt, Charles Goslin, always told me any good logo icon worth a damn should be legible on the head of a pin. Most of these fit that criteria. These are excerpts from this 1976 book WORLD OF LOGOTYPES. See more scans HERE.

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BEST OF r/showerthoughts 2014
10 years ago
I got sucked into the Reddit vortex in 2007 and have been struggling to escape ever since. It's the ultimate time suck. But there is indeed gold to be found there, if you dig deep enough. Case in point: r/showerthoughts - where people post mundane and consistently silly revelations that are invariably profound in their own way. Below are 15 of my favorites from this past year, which I photoshopped[...]

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BURNING MAN 2014: MAKE IT RAIN
10 years ago
PROLOGUE This year’s Burning Man was a profoundly different experience for me, mostly because I made a conscious effort to focus on the collective camp experience rather than my own personal existential bug out. I also only took a handful of photos, choosing instead to live in the moment rather than document it. Both of these decisions proved very rewarding in their own way. THE LONG AND SHOR[...]

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WANT TO JOIN MY JUNTO?
10 years ago
This past August, as I often do around that time of year, I found myself sitting in the middle of the Nevada desert contemplating existential questions with like-minded music makers and dreamers of dreams. Burning Man has become my week-long New Year’s Eve - the point where the new year begins and I look back at the last 12 months and my life and my place in the grand scheme of things. This[...]

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THE MULTIVERSE THEORY
10 years ago
BACKSTORY After attending an inspiring TED talk in August, I became determined to form my own JUNTO with a group of like-minded curious thinkers. What is a JUNTO you ask? Well, you can read my description HERE. So when it came time for the first meeting, I wanted to present a subject that was the modern day equivalent of the earth shaking ideas guys like Benjamin Franklin were talking about in 17[...]

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